1.to send or consign to an inferior position, place, or condition: He has been relegated to a post at the fringes of the diplomatic service.2.to consign or commit (a matter, task, etc.), as to a person: He relegates the less pleasant tasks to his assistant.3.to assign or refer (something) to a particular class or kind.
4.to send into exile; banish.

The only rational thing for the twentieth-century folk to do is to cover up the well; to make the twentieth century in truth the twentieth century, and to relegate to the nineteenth century and all the preceding centuries the things of those centuries, the witch-burnings, the intolerances, the fetiches, and, not least among such barbarisms.

There is not a creature in all this part of the world who could in the least understand with what heart-beatings I am looking forward to the flowering of these roses, and not a German gardening book that does not relegate all tea-roses to hot-houses, imprisoning them for life, and depriving them for ever of the breath of God.

Like the ancient Sophists, he relegates the more important principles of ethics to custom and probability.

Whoever wants to know something about me - as an artist which alone is significant - they should look attentively at my pictures and there seek to recognise what I am and what I want.